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Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Serving Maine and Lincoln County for over a century. |
Volume 135 Issue 30 |
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| 2/11/2009 2:00:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article |
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| Lincoln Academy junior Chloe Maxmin has been awarded the Prudential Maien High School Spirit Award for her environmental activism. The award is presented annually to one high school student and one junior high student in each state. |
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Maxmin Wins Prudential Spirit Of Community Award
 Lincoln Academy junior Chloe Maxmin, 16, of Nobleboro, was named Maine's top high school youth volunteer and will be presented the 14th annual Prudential Spirit of Community Award for her volunteer work with environmental activism.
The award is presented jointly by Prudential Financial and the National Association of Secondary School Principals to one high school and one junior high student in each state.
Maxmin is the Maine recipient and will receive a $1000 award, an engraved silver medallion and an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. from May 2-5.
While in Washington, the 102 State honorees will tour capital landmarks, attend a gala awards ceremony at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and visit their congressmen on Capitol Hill.
In Washington, Maxmin will meet award recipients from all over the U.S., and 10 will be named America's top youth volunteers for 2009 and receive a $5000 award and gold medallions. They will also receive a $5000 grant for the charity of their choice.
Maxmin also qualified for the President's Volunteer Service Award for volunteering significant amounts of her time to serve the community and the country. Maxmin will receive the award and a letter from the president.
She started Lincoln Academy's Climate Club and is involved in several independent environmental projects. She estimates she works three hours a day, outside of her school work on environmental issues centered around, "raising awareness in the community to fight climate change."
Maxmin said her environmental work is "the biggest part of her life." Her efforts serve to "raise awareness in the community to fight climate change, the biggest environmental issue we face today," she said.
LA's Climate Club won a competition in 2008 with Youth Venture, $1000 and a trip to Florida last summer to attend "Environmental Boot Camp." They were also filmed by the Sundance Channel for their Big Ideas For a Small Planet segment.
Maxmin, who lives on a farm and fell in love with the wilderness of Maine's North Woods while growing up, is passionate about preserving the environment. Her parents Shoshana Zuboff and Jim Maxmin planted the environmental awareness bug early and have been supportive of her efforts.
"My dad has worked with other businesses building green communities. Both my parents have helped me. I couldn't have done it without their support," Maxmin said.
When Maxmin entered high school she was surprised to find little awareness of environmental issues among students, so she decided to start a club focused on global warming. "I wanted to share my passion with my peers and galvanize a green movement in my school and town," she said.
Maxmin wrote a mission statement, recruited a faculty advisor, spoke at assemblies to sign up club members and held meetings to plan strategies and operations.
So far, the club has eliminated vehicle idling on school grounds; established recycling programs for batteries and print cartridges; installed energy optimization software (smart strips) on school computers; campaigned to reduce the use of plastic shopping bags in town; built a website (www.firstheretheneverywhere.org); produced educational materials; and written columns for a local newspaper.
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